The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne

Dedication (to Lord Spencer)

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Dixero si quid fortè jocosius, hoc mihi juris Cum venia dabis.---- HOR.

--Si quis calumnietur levius esse quam decet theologum, aut mordacius quam deceat Christianum--non Ego, sed Democritus dixit.-- ERASMUS.

Si quis Clericus, aut Monachus, verba joculatoria, risum moventia, sciebat, anathema esto. Second Council of CARTHAGE.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J O H N, LORD VISCOUNT SPENCER

MY LORD,

I HUMBLY beg leave to offer you these two Volumes; they are the best my talents, with such bad health as I have, could produce:--had Providence granted me a larger stock of either, they had been a much more proper present to your Lordship.

I beg your Lordship will forgive me, if, at the same time I dedicate this work to you, I join Lady SPENCER, in the liberty I take of inscribing the story of Le Fever to her name; for which I have no other motive, which my heart has informed me of, but that the story is a humane one.

I am,

MY LORD, Your Lordship’s most devoted and most humble Servant,

LAUR. STERNE.

Volumes V. and VI. in the first Edition.

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